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Here, the General admits that the reason the assassins never came to Sadao’s house to kill Tom is that the General forgot to arrange the whole thing in the first place. In a moment of self-awareness, the General blames himself for being selfish and preoccupied with his fragile health.
However, the General’s anxieties about the situation, coupled with his somewhat dramatic assertion of his patriotism, suggest that he might have intentionally let Tom go free. He nervously tells Sadao, “But you understand it was not lack of patriotism or dereliction of duty […] If the matter should come out you…